Sentences with phrase «become government witnesses»

The question that continues to ricochet around the city is which of these defendants will become government witnesses and who can they take down.

Third, we learned this week that Turkish gold trader Reza Zarrab, who had been charged with orchestrating a scheme to avoid Iran sanctions, has agreed to become a government witness as part of a plea deal.

«I asked him to contact the appropriate law - enforcement authorities for me, and he agreed to do so,» said Isaacs, recalling how he became a government witness.

Not exact matches

In one of the show's darkest and most telling moments, Tony's nephew and lieutenant, Christopher, plans to betray the Soprano family and go into the witness - protection program with his fiancée, who has been blackmailed into becoming a government snitch.

Closer to home we have only just witnessed how widespread calls to end the live export of animals to be slaughtered overseas are easily ignored by the Australian Government when the financial implications to the industry become evident.

«What we have witnessed in the last year is the hope and expectation that state government could become more functional has met the reality of personal politics,» Molinaro said in an interview with The Citizen.

Brian Foley became the government's star witness, testifying that he paid Rowland for campaign work and that the work Rowland did for Foley's company, Apple Health Care Inc., was only cursory.

While at that, I must point a weakness in running this type of government — fighting corruption becomes difficult as individuals to be prosecuted and perhaps ridiculed for indulging in corruption would be relations as we are witnessing already.

The alleged arrangement, which has become the heart of the corruption case against Mr. Silver, came into focus at his trial on Wednesday, as Dr. Robert N. Taub of Columbia University testified in federal court in Manhattan as a government witness.

A tense political thriller directed by John Boorman, Beyond Rangoon sees an American tourist (played by Patricia Arquette) forced to go on the run in Burma after becoming separated from her tour group and then witnessing various acts of violent repression by the government.

We first meet him in 1951 when he arouses the suspicion of a local police detective in Manchester, then witness his recruitment by the British government at the beginning of the war, and finally flash back to his youth and the incidents at school that helped shape the man he would become.

And when the body of a woman connected to one of the dead cops is found on the sidewalk below her apartment window, things get even more complicated, as a reputed «witness» — the wife of a high - ranking government official — becomes obsessed with the case, and with Espinosa.

Spooky CIA Conspiracy Art Is Actually True — Anyone dubious about Garrett Pruter's installation at Armory Week's Spring Break outlining the CIA's alleged 1953 murder of Frank Olson, a scientist who became unsettled by the government's secret biological - warfare atrocities he witnessed in Project Artichoke, should check out this article about a new lawsuit that Olson's family has filed against the CIA.